Unclassified road crash in Cornwall TR11 on 28 February 2015 at 18:51 involving a Vauxhall Astravan
A car and a Vauxhall Astravan were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 18:51 on Saturday 28 February 2015. The 18-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 2015
- Saturday, 18:51
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astravan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.15111, longitude -5.0641, in the TR11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Falmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falmouth Arwenack, Cornwall, TR11 3HP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550GP2A002
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 15 July 1981
2 m awayRef 198150A111332
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 17 May 1983
2 m awayRef 198350A510864
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 15 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200250A510523
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 24 December 1986
12 m awayRef 198650A512475
Slight
Gilera Dna 50 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 10 April 2002
12 m awayRef 200250A511337
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 19 March 1999
16 m awayRef 199950A510886
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astravan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201550GP2A002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cornwall road accident statistics for 2015.